Have you ever read The Bank Robber Diaries by Danny King? The protagonist and his mates hold up a post office dressed in burqas - hilarious.

How soon before some toerags decide that this is the best way of skirting security issues and go on a robbing spree?

It's already been done...

The Burglar Diaries was better, I thought. Much funnier.

I was right with you until you tied yourself up in knots trying to justify the seatbelt law.

The nonsense you produced then pretty much proves that was a bad example to pick.

There's a difference between tying myself in knots and saying something Andrew Duffin disagrees with.

Talk to any traffic cop and they'll tell you plenty of accidents are caused by people inconsiderately lying in the middle of the road after being propelled out of their cars, spreading their accident to include more vehicles and people than necessary. And if you've never been in a car driven by some tosser who refuses to let you wear a seatbelt because he views it as an assault on his manhood, well, lucky you. I met a guy in the Czech Republic who cut the seatbelts out of his car as he viewed them as useless wastes of space that got in the way, and this was not viewed as unusual. For his passengers, wearing or not wearing a seatbelt was not a choice they were free to make.

I should add that most car accidents aren't dramatic high-speed calamities; they're minor bumps. If you're driving a ton of metal around the place, you have a responsibility to stay in control of it. Wearing or not wearing a seatbelt can be the difference between remaining in control of your vehicle or knocking yourself unconscious on the steering wheel. If your car continues to move after the collision or if it starts to move again ('cause you're on a hill or you get shunted by another car), then your failure to be in control of the vehicle when you easily could have been is gross reckless dangerous irresponsibility on your part.

I find the popular libertarian insistence that seatbelts are a purely personal matter that affect absolutely nobody other than the person wearing them utterly bizarre, frankly. And counter to the evidence.